This November I’m recommending a dark book for a dark month – Lady Macbeth by American author Ava Reid. Her novel was first published in 2024 and is easily available in paperback or as an ebook. The single-viewpoint narrative also works particularly well as an audiobook. This story is set in a version of 11th… Continue reading
I’m starting the new reading year with a recommendation for The Crow Folk (2021) by Mark Stay, a story I’d classify as Horror with humour and heart. This is the first book in The Witches of Woodville, a series set in a far from ordinary English village during World War II. Four volumes have been… Continue reading
For this coronation month I’m recommending Miss Sharp’s Monsters, a trilogy by Australian author Suzannah Rowntree which has an unusual take on Europe’s royal families. The series begins with The Werewolf of Whitechapel, continues with Anarchist on the Orient Express and comes to a dramatic conclusion in A Vampire in Bavaria. All three volumes were… Continue reading